Best Remorse Quotations
263 Remorse quotes by 210 unique authors
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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why…
— Jeffrey Dahmer
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Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories
— Jon Ronson
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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
— Mark Twain
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It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity…
— Chris Hedges
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The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness…
— Chris Prentiss
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And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
— Khalil Gibran
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You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse,…
— Mike Livingston
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The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
— Samuel Johnson
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
— Aldous Huxley
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
— J I Packer
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What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not…
— Isaac Asimov
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I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I…
— Teresa Giudice
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Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will…
— Khaled Mashal
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The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
— Winston Churchill
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
— Jean Racine
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I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but…
— Delmore Schwartz
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We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care…
— Khem Veasna
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